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Translation not very clear, but seems to say towards the end that the bridge will quickly cost more than it's worth to maintain (issues with the concrete?) and will need to be demolished.

I'm guessing what happened here is neither maintenance nor (planned) demolition.

"We've seen cases outside the UK, with some of our World Service sites where foreign governments have tried to [track which articles and videos you're looking at or selectively suppress individual pieces of content]."

Is there any more information about such instances or is that insider knowledge?

Comment is clearer in context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1813443

Not necessarily, and even so not for free.

(Client must specify compression support)

Someone who in principle has a very high "Athletic Quotient" may be relatively bad at this depending on how many times they've attempted it before the test.

A good AQ test would hopefully control for this? Though my understanding is that IQ doesn't control very well for practice either. It's a hard problem.

I think this could be more interesting if it was a superset of C++ that allowed for brevity in some cases. Something that could:

1. Act as a preprocessing step for any existing C++ file

2. Output perfectly servicable C++ in the case where you want to move away.

Additions like the "known" keyword make this look badly thought out.

In any case, the weakness of C++ in most cases is compilation speed, not typing speed. Even in the ideal case I can't see this adding more value than it detracts (preprocessing speed + buildsystem complication + extra dependency).

I can't see how #6 would be a larger problem than the others unless all existing microelectronics disappeared overnight, which doesn't seem like a real concern.

Yes. All those countries you have in mind can attempt that and likely already have. The creation of law or precedent in the USA doesn't make it happen elsewhere, nor does not having law or precedent in the USA prevent it elsewhere. This response comes up a lot, and it deserves to be considered more than rhetorically.

I agree that this needs to be discussed more frankly. A better choice of words on my part would have been "unpleasant" rather than "distasteful".

In any case, I don't know of any modern political system in which this important issue can be addressed directly -- rather than letting each authority silently make decisions based on their own values.

It's also worth noting that the absolute value of people's lives (in terms of what's spent) changes depending on who's doing the spending. This is the same as saying "money is worth progressively less as you get more of it". That's unlikely to make the topic more approachable.

It must be tremendously difficult for the parents. It's only natural that they would hold on to any chance of seeing their daughter again.

From the perspective of society, even assuming that someone declared brain-dead could be revived -- maybe with some future technology if they just keep the body functioning -- at what cost does it make sense to end the life?

Are there other cases where the unpleasant (edit: was "distasteful) subject of the cost of a life (as valued by society rather than Bill Gates) comes into play?

"almost certainly" does leave room for some cases.

Also, that was a music CD with malware, not a software application. I'm sure the DRM for many games was comparable, but they still had to mind their manners somewhat.

I miss when my money mattered.

IIUC the API needed for this addon[1] will be available in FF 59[2].

Mozilla dropped support for Tab Center a while before Quantum IIRC. Another addon took its place, but then was dropped by its developer with Quantum. Supposedly [1] will allow transition from the older addons. I'm looking forward to finding out once 59 is out.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/ [2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423725

Looks like it's slated for 59 though: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423725

Didn't read much, but hopefully it allows hiding without unloading.

Patiently waiting..

I see your point, and it looks like I replied to the wrong person. Your points likely apply to my read-later and do-later groups. (I might argue, but should probably take it to heart first).

My point about bookmarks and pocket not filling my use-case (even if I dropped read/do later) stands -- I really do want multiple switchable tab contexts.

A common response.

As a reluctant user of tree style tabs (holding out for the restoration of tab groups), I disagree.

I usually have different sets of tabs open:

  - A set for each of the 2-3 projects I have active this month
  - Casual browsing
  - Read later
  - Do later

This adds up easily to one or two hundred tabs -- and these aren't bookmarks. Bookmarks aren't gone when you close the tab, which is the desired behavior for all the above cases.

Pocket or similar (ignoring my refusal to use a 3rdParty service for my own data) would only be useful for do-later and read-later.

With tab groups I had a perfect setup which supported /all/ my use cases in one go. With TST I can roughly approximate this with a top-level tab for each (it's not great).

Bookmarks need to be replaced with something that covers a wider range of use-cases without having to cobble together a bunch of different workflows.

People know about bookmarks and pocket. Most people who are actively searching out extensions are not avoiding learning a different workflow (obvious if you think about it). I've gone through many different workflows, and I'll keep testing out more. Tab groups was the best thing yet for me.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12079880